1920

Queens: Broadway - Corona Avenue

Broadway; at the N. E. corner of Corona Avenue, showing four views of the St. James P. E. Church and Parsonage. This edifice was erected on the site of the Dr. Jacob Ogden house. He donated it in 1761. Evidently the property was expressly left to him for this purpose by the last will of William Sackett. The structure was opened in 1848 and consecrated on November 15, 1849. A town clock was also placed in one of the spires. On March 30, 1871 it was reopened after being enlarged. It is said that this parish was organized in 1704. View 4, taken in the opposite direction, shows beyond the church, another which is the First Reformed Church of Newtown. 1920's Views 1,2,3,4 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection